From: Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There is at least one layout package I know of that will report "dangling lines" and their x:y coordinates. Also, I have been told that running the database through Specctra will remove dangling lines. Though I have never witnessed the process, it might be worth looking into. >
From: Abd ulRahman Lomax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Some stubs might be eliminated by the autorouter; autorouter intelligence > does encompass most if not all of what is needed to find stubs. > > I haven't tried it, but the autorouter might already eliminate some stubs, > assuming that they are not locked. It seems to me that it once did. The trouble with using an autorouter, Specctra or Protel, to remove antennas is that in an update to a design, I wanted to preserve the existing routing. I used the Protel autorouter after removing as many junk traces as I could find. But I locked the exitsting traces, preventing the autorouter from going wild on the board. I had spent many hours on the previous revision cleaning up acute angles, of which the autorouter had generated thousands. I didn't want to go through that again. Thus, the autorouter could not clean up atnennas. (It also made dual traces, over but not exactly the same path as the locked ones, instead of using portions of the locked traces to connect to. But these were easy to find by inspection. In fact, it was searching for these redundant traces that revealed the antennas.) > From: "Ian Capps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've only seen that capability in some of the gerber softwares. The old > > Lavenir View2001 does an unterminated trace check but Camtastic doesn't seem > > to have the ability. From: Bob Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm not sure about Camtastic but my CAM350 software will check for unwanted > antennas. Does anyone know of any additional Gerber view software that checks for this besides Lavenir View2001 and CAM350? Thanks to all for your input, John W. Childers * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
